This is a question posted in the /r/anarchism101 subreddit which is a common misconception about what anarchists suggest
I want to think of anarchism as a description for what is wrong and what needs to be plucked out, but once I think of its implementation I can’t help but to think it doesn’t fit humans as a whole. We need to rise intellectually before it can be applied. Right?
So here’s a chance to address this quickly
Is the reason why anarchism is still not the norm because humans aren’t yet ready for it?
No. Anarchism is the most compatible with what anthropology and psychology tells us about humans social relations. The problem is that the environment you live in (i.e. society) shapes what things you accept and humans have been either too conditioned by hundreds of years of coercion and violence to accept capitalist values, such as wage slavery, or actively prevented from seeking the alternative even now.
Most humans would gladly shake off capitalist concepts of work and wage and exploitation given half the chance, but those who have the most benefit in doing so (the poor in other countries) are actively repressed by violence funded by their exploiters (the rich and middle class of rich countries). In turn, the middle class and the poor of the richer counties are palliated by the crumbs from the theft which occurs wholescale in the rest of the world, so that they don’t rise up. And when the palliatives fail, actual violence is again employed.
One of the classic examples of the corporate and political lie swallowed by the poor and middle class, is the “Trickle-Down” theory. The ideology that those wonderful companies and corporations (like Enron, WorldCom, AIG?…) will create a river of wealth flowing down like a river. However, we know that all the money flows upward, as is the case with organized crime.
The U.S.A is now America INC. A wholly owned subsidiary of multi-national corporations, and baby, they are not going to give up the money and the power anytime soon…